Lorry kills nine at Christmas market

[vetran]

Thank goodness for the police information exchange of Schengen, which mean this nutcase terrorist was caught despite fleeing Germany.

You'll also note that after the Paris attacks, the borders were swiftly closed, and that didn't prevent the perpetrators making it to Belgium. Despite the driver trying to tip off the police at one of the checks.

yep they share the information freely

Employee of German intelligence agency uncovered as Islamist extremist planning Isis-inspired terror attack | The Independent

A German national security agent has been arrested on suspicion of being an Islamist and disclosing sensitive information as part of a possible Isis-inspired terror plot.

The 51-year-old was a full-time employee of the Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) – the German equivalent of MI5 – when he allegedly started using extremist chat sites under a fake name.

Security sources told Die Welt he was planning a bomb attack “in the name of Allah” on the intelligence agency’s headquarters in Cologne until he was discovered by a BfV informer who came across the internet threads last month.

Probably means this is all false

https://www.rt.com/uk/370547-german-spies-mi6-gchq/

British spies are refusing to share secret information with their German counterparts because they believe Berlin’s leaky data servers have provided rich pickings for WikiLeaks.
Politicians in Berlin are said to be furious about the intelligence blockade, which has seen German spy agency BND cut off from US and British secret data at a time when Europe is under constant threat of terrorist attacks.

The spat between intelligence agencies is also linked to continued German anger at incidents where Chancellor Angela Merkel was spied on by America’s National Security Agency (NSA).

[Mainframe gent]

There've been Turks since the 60s. The other big (and problematic) group are the North Africans (Tunisians etc). DUnno why they came to Germany but in general they predate this crisis - they've been there since the 90s although its quoite conceivable that more have entered taking advanatage of the crisis.

How many of the million migrants that have been let into germany in the last year do you think are Syrians and how many from say North African countries?

[vetran]

There is no point explaining Schengen to people with a little Islander mentality. They don't understand at various points on a continent you can just walk, cycle, ride a donkey or drive across borders as the border is too long to police.

ah you looked it up, well done.


Indeed and there is little point proposing a free for all to an Island with protect able borders.

[SueEllen]

ah you looked it up, well done.


Indeed and there is little point proposing a free for all to an Island with protect able borders.

Didn't look anything up there are more Islands in the world than the UK.

[sasguru]

How many of the million migrants that have been let into germany in the last year do you think are Syrians and how many from say North African countries?

I don't know. My point is that, contrary to popular opinion, Merkel didn't extend an open invitation to every refugee to come to Germany. It was the fact that Hungary couldn't cope that made Merkel say that Syrian refugees would be processed faster.

[sasguru]

Probably means this is all false

https://www.rt.com/uk/370547-german-spies-mi6-gchq/

It may be false or it may be true.
You can't tell because it comes from the modern equivalent of Pravda.

[BlasterBates]

ah you looked it up, well done.


Indeed and there is little point proposing a free for all to an Island with protect able borders.

The UK has twice as many illegal immigrants than Germany.

[SueEllen]

The UK has twice as many illegal immigrants than Germany.

How do you know if they are illegal?

[NickFitz]

I don't know. My point is that, contrary to popular opinion, Merkel didn't extend an open invitation to every refugee to come to Germany. It was the fact that Hungary couldn't cope that made Merkel say that Syrian refugees would be processed faster.

To be precise, what the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees announced in August 2015 was that Syrian refugees would not be subject to the Dublin Regulation, meaning they would not be sent back to whichever EU country they had first arrived in.

[SueEllen]

To be precise, what the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees announced in August 2015 was that Syrian refugees would not be subject to the Dublin Regulation, meaning they would not be sent back to whichever EU country they had first arrived in.

That's cos she knew most of them were middle class. Only the uneducated and unskilled wanted to come to the UK.

And both groups speak English....